Jihad dupes sacked. From The Layman (no direct link), with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
Two high-level Presbyterian Church (USA) employees have been fired in the aftermath of their taking part in a controversial meeting with a representative of Hezbollah, a group blamed for murdering hundreds of Americans and Israelis.Kathy Leuckert, deputy executive associate director of the General Assembly Council, and Peter Sulyok, coordinator of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, were notified that they were no longer employed by the Presbyterian Church (USA), according to a memo released Thursday morning by John Detterick, the executive director of the General Assembly Council....
Two elected members of that delegation – Ron Stone and Nile Harper – prompted a wave of criticism from Jews, Presbyterians and the secular press because of comments they made to Hezbollah media that were viewed to be anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian.
Why any female walking the planet would associate themselves with Muslim males is beyond my comprehension. Just plain ignorance is my guess.
My concern is why they would be meeting with such a group of cut-throat cockroaches.
A good start -- but only a start. There has to be some thorough investigation of all these pro-PLO jihadists who have carefully infiltrated all sorts of organizations, or been allowed to do so. There is Nancy Murray at the ACLU of Massachusetts, primly posing as a defender of civil liberties (just google her name, or that of her daughter "Rebecca Murray" -- stout defender with her body of Arafat at the Mukata --and ask what someone in bed with the likes of Arafat can possibly preach about civil liberties), the infamous Joe Stork, who goes way back in toiling in the vineyards of anti-Israel activities, unaccountably hired by Kenneth Roth's Human Rights Watch -- making a mockery of the whole thing -- oh, and then there is John Simpson at the BBC, Peter Hounam (see his "The Cyanide Conspiracy") bosom friend, for whom he wrote an introdcution, and at the U.N. along with half the secretariat, there is the infamous Edward Mortimer.
Yes, the Islamintern is far more widespread, cunning, well-financed, and prompted in part by two of the strongest currents in modern international life , antisemitism and anti-Americanism. These people have to be identified, and discharged. Let them all go work for MERIP. Or be hired by Rashid Khalidi as research assistants, or to teach creative writing, like some "Palestinian" women writers now at Columbia investigating what it means to be "an Arab-American" (what this is all about is to convince the descendants of Lebanese Maronites and other Christians that they have something in common with the very people who drove their parents or grandparents into exile in the first place, trying to flee Islam -- nice trick, but anyting is possible).
In any case, a bit less Noam Chomsky, and a bit more Rev. Horace Underwood, in the Presbyterian Church, is greatly to be desired.
Some feminists, Phyllis Chesler among them, recently debating the issue of feminist antipathy towards Israel and Jews and favouring the Pali/Muslim cause in a FrontPageMag.com symposium. They concluded that the attraction was this notion that they (the feminists) are victims, and so are the Palis/Muslims, and they get to confirm their victim status by identifying with these other "victims".
A strain of Stockholm syndrome, really. Only a true moron would seriously think there is more gender parity in the Arab/Muslim world then there is in Israeli society (except, of course, the Orthodox/Haridim) and the broader Jewish community. (And never mind a couple of milenia of persecution endured by Jews throughout Europe and Asia Minor for simply adhering to the faith of their fathers and their fathers before them.)
I wonder if these two twits saw the guy who tried to witness to the lions the other day. The lions were not receptive, much like muslims.
A good start, but there is still too much crying "mea culpa" for the world's ills and not enough thought given to self-defense. Those Christians waving the white flag will become human shields, human bombs, or useful idiots, they will not be welcomed as equal inhabitants of the world. Wake up and smell the coffee. You are being used!!!!!
I will pray for the protestant churches, all we have to be anti-dhirmis, greetings
the protestant churches are quite diverse in where they fall on the political spectrum. while the so-called "high-church" protestants typically veer left -- i.e. presbyterian, episcopalian, congregationalist, unitarian, lutheran -- the more evangelical protestants veer right -- i.e. baptists, methodists, pentacostals. within the denominations, one will find political schisms, such as what is happening now in the american episcopal church where the conservative elements seek solidarity with their african counterparts, while the mainstreamers continue on their path of sanctioning the gay bishop. in the case of the above, it looks like the terrorist-lovers just went a bit too far for the presbytery
Since the 1930's, the "mainstream" Presbyterians in America have been driving out their traditional Christians. There are now several conservative denominations with the name "Presbyterian" in their titles, for whom the bureaucratized, Goddess-worshipping, homosexuality-blessing UPCUSA does not speak. Still, I'm glad that the oldline group is distancing itself from Hezbollah.
Also, quit referring to the Palestine Arabs as "Pali". Pali is one of the ancient Indo-Aryan tongues of northern India, in which much of the canon of Theravada Buddhism is written. In modern Thai, the phrase, "Ben paasaa Pali"--"it's in Pali"--is the idiomatic equivalent of what English-speakers used to mean by, "It's Gospel truth."
Kepha1:
My apologies for using "Pali" as short for Palestinian. I was unaware of that it was the language of a very different ethnic group.